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TIC-302
10-02-2010, 08:02 PM
A mate who spent alot of his time at Jonespeed in the late 70's to the mid 80's has just completed a 1:18 scale of the Amaroo Park 1982 CRC 300 winning RX-7 driven by Barry Jones and Allan Jones ( yes the F1 champ).

The car started out as a plain black race car , then it was totaly stripped painted and modifyied/detailed.

here are some pics.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4621/img0000620 1002091624.jpg (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/img0000620100209162 4.jpg/)

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6830/img0000720 1002091625.jpg (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/img0000720100209162 5.jpg/)

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5438/img0001220 1002091626.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/i/img0001220100209162 6.jpg/)


http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6138/img0001320 1002091627.jpg (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/img0001320100209162 7.jpg/)
Brock 05
10-02-2010, 08:22 PM
:2thumbsup: Enough said, are they water slides or vinyl?
TIC-302
10-02-2010, 08:24 PM
vinyl
cobra1978
10-02-2010, 08:26 PM
nice work
onfire
10-02-2010, 08:29 PM
very nice, good job mate
Road Runner 72
10-02-2010, 08:45 PM
Great detail work I have to say....
1:43
10-02-2010, 10:18 PM
Cool :cool::cool:
supa-roo
11-02-2010, 01:42 AM
Very nice job
Well done
david5
11-02-2010, 06:36 AM
Niicee. Very smooth. Is he going to do a Bob Morris version of it as well ?
SDK
11-02-2010, 07:26 AM
Great work, he's got tallent. I'd consider buying this one of released.
Chris Roche
11-02-2010, 07:45 AM
Very nice indeed. Well done.
GLENN L
11-02-2010, 08:23 AM
what a great effort, that looks kick ***.
Hey Charger
11-02-2010, 09:30 AM
I usually don't comment on Code 3's, but this one kicks some serious rump!!!

Good work.

Cheers
TIC-302
11-02-2010, 02:52 PM
thanks, it is a very high level model,(the pics were taken by phone and they don't do the model any justice) this guy is a very talented model builder plus he has 100+ 1:18 scale models in his collection mainly race cars.

He is hoping CC or Biante is not going to produce this exact model as he spen alot of money and time on this!
fatty
11-02-2010, 02:53 PM
That is brilliant and different.
biante1921
11-02-2010, 05:18 PM
The yellow decal on the pillar just behind the drivers door??
Looks like one of those little fellas FORD P--S on HOLDEN??
i know its not but would like to know what it represents??
Rascot
11-02-2010, 06:10 PM
A mate who spent alot of his time at Jonespeed in the late 70's to the mid 80's has just completed a 1:18 scale of the Amaroo Park 1982 CRC 300 winning RX-7 driven by Barry Jones and Allan Jones ( yes the F1 champ).

The car started out as a plain black race car , then it was totaly stripped painted and modifyied/detailed.

here are some pics.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4621/img0000620 1002091624.jpg (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/img0000620100209162 4.jpg/)

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6830/img0000720 1002091625.jpg (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/img0000720100209162 5.jpg/)

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5438/img0001220 1002091626.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/i/img0001220100209162 6.jpg/)


http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6138/img0001320 1002091627.jpg (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/img0001320100209162 7.jpg/)

Brilliant, your mate is a very talented man TIC-302, looks awesome.
Andrew
11-02-2010, 06:44 PM
That really is outstanding. As you said your phone pics didn't do the model justice, any chance of getting pics from a proper camera?
TIC-302
11-02-2010, 08:09 PM
The yellow decal on the pillar just behind the drivers door??
Looks like one of those little fellas FORD P--S on HOLDEN??
i know its not but would like to know what it represents??


It was a Darrell lea mascot of the 80's.

It was freehandedly drawn from old racecar photos, then scanned and re created on a pc then printed / created as a vinyl and fitted up to the model.

The decal kit for this model cost a fortune and it was very time consuming.
fatty
12-02-2010, 07:56 AM
You could make some more and sell them to other code 3'ers
ratster70
13-02-2010, 05:32 AM
Very noice job on that code 3 well done;)
Kashmir
13-02-2010, 07:37 AM
Excellent work there:)
TIC-302
13-02-2010, 07:59 PM
You could make some more and sell them to other code 3'ers



I am not sure if people would buy a model like this for $1000?
ratster70
13-02-2010, 08:02 PM
I am not sure if people would buy a model like this for $1000?


Damn straight be hard up to pay that for any model especially a blat blat machine :p:D
fatty
14-02-2010, 06:21 AM
I am not sure if people would buy a model like this for $1000?I meant the decal set not the model.
HDT337
14-02-2010, 07:32 AM
$1000?, What was his hourly rate, its a great job, but I definitly cant see $1000 in it.

HDT337
TIC-302
14-02-2010, 05:31 PM
not sure what he spent,, that was just a figure i used.
impression
15-02-2010, 03:52 AM
Good work
moxo
15-02-2010, 12:11 PM
Ten hours at a hundred bucks, including materials - that's not that expensive.

I wouldn't pay it - would prefer to do it myself (although I'd rather a Terry Shiel version).

But that's a great job - well done.



Moxo
Nedwob
16-02-2010, 02:03 PM
Great stuff! Is he going to do any other Jonespeed cars? Any chance I could get in contact with him, as I own an old Jonespeed Gp C RX7 that he would have worked on.
TIC-302
16-02-2010, 08:20 PM
which car have you got?

As jonespeed only built 2 cars, the model car(which had a colour change for the 84 bathurst) and the slick 50 car.

The ghostbuters car only got a jonespeed engine for 84 bathurst it wasn't built by them.
david5
17-02-2010, 07:14 AM
I thought Peter McLeod built the chassis for his cars & BJ did the running gear. Although there was two or three cars.
AmonFan
17-02-2010, 07:16 AM
I thought Peter McLeod built the chassis for his cars & BJ did the running gear. Although there was two or three cars.

Was the Jones car that got the bbq treatment at Amaroo in 81 rebuilt?

McLeod had 2 from mem, the first one went to Ernie Carinello (Spelling) in Canberra circa 83....